Word: membered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...doesn't fit the usual conception of a U.S. Senator. A glib, jaunty spellbinder with a "listen-you-guys" approach, he talks and looks more like a high-school science teacher who coaches basketball on the side. He has the cyclonic attack of an advertising salesman. A charter member (and this week the new national chairman) of Americans for Democratic Action, a coalition of leftist, non-Communist intellectuals and displaced New Dealers, he has little use for the old party-machine school of politics...
...every main intersection, the cops were knee-high in mounds of cheese, nuts, cake, fruit, beer, wine, liquors, and an occasional mug of shaving cream. One Roman police sergeant estimated that before Befana was done, each member of the 130-man traffic police force took home an average of four bottles of wine plus a pound of pasta...
Spain's Jewry was stunned. Its most eminent member, the great theologian Isaac Abrabanel, who had risen to be financial adviser to the Crown, pleaded with Ferdinand to rescind the edict of expulsion. According to Abrabanel's own account of the historic scene, he "wearied himself to distraction in imploring compassion." He cried: "Regard us, Ferdinand, use not thy servants so cruelly." But the King remained "more fierce than Esau." Only when Abrabanel offered him 30,000 ducats did he seem to weaken...
...knows," exploded a member of the London County Council, "why we ever took it on in the first place. The blasted thing's been a target ever since." The blasted thing was London's gleaming statue of Eros, God of Love. Time after time, on nights of revelry in Piccadilly Circus, while lovers ogled each other beneath Eros' outstretched wings, the fire brigade has had to remove hats from the god's wreathed head or frilly unmentionables from his poised limbs...
Lean, long-faced Hugh Campbell had moved up to administrative jobs before the shooting started in World War II. As Director of Training Plans he was general manager of the Commonwealth's pilot-training program for a year and a half. Then, as a member of the Air Staff, he saw the R.C.A.F. in action from Britain to India. In the North African desert, his jeep ran over a land mine. Lucky Campbell's worst injury was a broken eardrum (which has healed...